Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Update

I had a set back last week when the bearings on my grinder finally gave out. I had been meaning to replace them for some time and had replacements on hand. However, when I actually got the thing apart I discovered that the drive shaft was worn out so had to order another one. Got it over nighted and did the rebuild yesterday.

Now I'm working on getting a batch of the new WildCard knives ready to send to heat treat. Should be ready to send off by tomorrow. These are the updated credit card knives that I previewed on the Museum blog a few weeks ago.

Next will be finishing some pieces from the DLC batch. These will be slow to finish because most of them are knives so I'll have to get back into sheath mode. I'm actually trying to decide whether to tackle those first or go ahead and spend three more days grinding and get the Extended G3 Prybabies ready for heat treat as well. It's hard to juggle all this stuff at once and keep it flowing...

Actually, I am going to buy another grinder next week. :D It's a horizontal edge grinder though for profiling pieces and doing finger grooves, that sort of thing. Would be nice to have a third one that I could have set up so that I could go from one to another down the line but it hasn't seemed worth it.

oh yeah i have seen the vids, they are amazing and like you said, rock solid. I have yet to hear anything bad about beaumont metal works! their horizontal is awesome and with the extension plate, you can share belts with the the vertical grinder! now the hard part of trying to maintain my shop budget while you are releasing all these edged goodies!!

Peter, Just want to add my words of appreciation and encouragement to everyone else's. Thanks for creating such cool tools. Please keep up the lottery system, I feel I have a chance not whereas before I didnt.

Mega dittos from a conservative. Keep it up and start buying Red Bull by the case :) BTW, get crackin'-- Great stuff and we (well, most) fans know it'll become available as soon as it's ready--duh. Even if I don't get something via the lottery, I feel like I've a better chance than w/o it.

Hey Peter, those WildCards are looking cool...but..I'm kinda hoping for a metric G3..any idea when we'll those? (maybe even in XL?) I had hoped for a metric Atwrench, but unless I missed them they never were made right?